DEMOS (Demos) was the first
internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise private ...
in the
USSR
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.
History
DEMOS was established in 1989 in Moscow as a programmers' cooperative, which included employees of the
Kurchatov Institute
The Kurchatov Institute (russian: Национальный исследовательский центр «Курчатовский Институт», 'National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute) is Russia's leading research and developmen ...
. For the first few months, the cooperative was called "Interface"; then it was renamed in honor of the
DEMOS operating system. In 1990, DEMOS, in cooperation with the scientific network
Relkom, registered a
top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in ...
. This domain become the starting point for development of the
Russian segment of the Internet - RUnet.
[Grekov, Alexander]
"The ISP Scene in Russia"
. ''Netnod'', 24 September 2010.
See also
*
Kremvax
Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konsta ...
References
External links
Site of DEMOS (in Russian)Relcom history (in Russian)
History of the Internet
Internet service providers of Russia
Companies based in Moscow
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